Plant Identification

Groundcover

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Kidney Weed

Dichondra repens

Native planting

Plant

Leaf

this is a tiny Flower

Description

low creeping herb with kidney shaped leaves on weak stalks, fine hairs on both sides of leaves, very small white flowers (spring-summer)

(not actually a weed but a very useful groundcover)

Where found planted as part of revegetation, common in moist shady locations, recently planted at the Nestle site
Status. some areas has it done well, stabilising the soil and suppressing weeds, acting as a living mulch forming a dense carpet